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Kay Bradley

COP26: Key Outcomes From the UN Climate Talks in Glasgow  | World Resources I... - 0 views

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  • The world still remains off track to beat back the climate crisis.  
  • ministers from all over the world agreed that countries should come back next year to submit stronger 2030 emissions reduction targets with the aim of closing the gap to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees
  • Ministers also agreed that developed countries should urgently deliver more resources to help climate-vulnerable countries adapt to the dangerous and costly consequences of climate change that they are feeling already —
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  • curb methane emissions,
  • halt and reverse forest loss,
  • align the finance sector with net-zero by 2050
  • ditch the internal combustion engine
  • accelerate the phase-out of coal,
  • end international financing for fossil fuels,
  • “Not nearly enough” to the first question, “yes” to the second. 
  • 151 countries had submitted new climate plans (known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs)
  • To keep the goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C within reach, we need to cut global emissions in half by the end of this decade.
  • these plans, as they stand, put the world on track for 2.5 degrees C of warming by the end of the century.
  • If you take into account countries’ commitments to reach net-zero emissions by around mid-century, analysis shows temperature rise could be kept to around 1.8 or 1.9 degrees C.
  • some major emitters’ 2030 targets are so weak (particularly those from Australia, China, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Russia) that they don’t offer credible pathways to achieve their net-zero targets.
  • a major “credibility gap”
  • To fix this problem, these countries’ must strengthen their 2030 emissions reduction targets to at least align with their net-zero commitments. 
  • as well as ramping up ambition
  • the pact asks nations to consider further actions to curb potent non-CO2 gases, such as methane, and includes language emphasizing the need to “phase down unabated coal” and “phase-out fossil fuel subsidies.”
  • This marked the first time negotiators have explicitly referenced shifting away from coal and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies in COP decision text.  
  • this COP finally recognized the importance of nature for both reducing emissions and building resilience to the impacts of climate change,
  • Did Developing Countries Get the Finance and Support They Need? 
  • In 2009, rich nations committed to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 and through 2025 to support climate efforts in developing countries
  • developed countries failed to meet that goal in 2020 (recent OECD estimates show that total climate finance reached $79.6 billion in 2019).
  • The Adaptation Fund reached unprecedented levels of contributions, with new pledges for $356 million that represent almost three times its mobilization target for 2022. The Least Developed Countries Fund, which supports climate change adaptation in the world’s least developed countries, also received a record $413 million in new contributions.
  • COP26 also took steps to help developing countries access good quality finance options.
  • For example, encouraging multilateral institutions to further consider the links between climate vulnerabilities and the need for concessional financial resources for developing countries — such as securing grants rather than loans to avoid increasing their debt burden. 
  • COP26 finally put the critical issue of loss and damage squarely on the main stage
  • Climate change is already causing devastating losses of lives, land and livelihoods. Some damages are permanent — from communities that are wiped out, to islands disappearing beneath the waves, to water resources that are drying up.
  • Countries also agreed to operationalize and fund the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage, established at COP25 in Madrid, and to catalyze the technical assistance developing countries need to address loss and damage in a robust and effective manner.  
  • International Carbon Markets.
  • negotiators agreed to avoid double-counting, in which more than one country could claim the same emissions reductions as counting toward their own climate commitments.
  • his is critical to make real progress on reducing emissions.
  • Common Time Frames. In Glasgow, countries were encouraged to use common timeframes for their national climate commitments. This means that new NDCs that countries put forward in 2025 should have an end-date of 2035, in 2030 they will put forward commitments with a 2040 end-date, and so on.
  • Transparency. In Glasgow, all countries agreed to submit information about their emissions and financial, technological and capacity-building support using a common and standardized set of formats and tables.
  • 100 high-level announcements during the “World Leaders Summit"
  • including a bold commitment from India to reach net-zero emissions by 2070 that is backed up with near-term targets (including ambitious renewable energy targets for 2030), 109 countries signing up to the Global Methane Pledge to slash emissions by 30% by 2030, and a pledge by 141 countries (as of November 10) to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 (backed by $18 billion in funding, including $1.7 billion dedicated to support indigenous peoples).  
  • Glasgow Breakthroughs, a set of global targets meant to dramatically accelerate the innovation and use of clean technologies in five emissions-heavy sectors:
  • power, road transport, steel, hydrogen and agriculture.
  • 46 countries, including the U.K., Canada, Poland and Vietnam made commitments to phase out domestic coal,
  • 29 countries including the U.K., Canada, Germany and Italy committed to end new direct international public support for unabated fossil fuels by the end of 2022
  • Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, led by Costa Rica and Denmark — with core members France, Greenland, Ireland, Quebec, Sweden and Wales — pledged to end new licensing rounds for oil and gas exploration and production and set an end date that is aligned with Paris Agreement objectives
  • Efforts were also made to scale up solar investment
  • new Solar Investment Action Agenda by WRI, the International Solar Alliance (ISA) and Bloomberg Philanthropies that identifies high-impact opportunities to speed up investment and reach ISA’s goal of mobilizing $1 trillion in solar investment by 2030.
  • Non-state actors including investors, businesses, cities and subnational regions also joined collective action initiatives aimed at driving economic transformation.
  • Over 400 financial firms which control over $130 trillion in assets committed to aligning their portfolios to net-zero by 2030
  • banks, asset managers and asset owners fully recognize the business case for climate action and the significant risks of investing in the high-carbon, polluting economy of that past.
  • 11 major automakers agreed to work toward selling only zero-emission vehicles globally by 2040, and by no later than 2035 in leading markets.  
  • In the year ahead, major emitters need to ramp up their 2030 emissions reduction targets to align with 1.5 degrees C, more robust approaches are needed to hold all actors accountable for the many commitments made in Glasgow, and much more attention is needed on how to meet the urgent needs of climate-vulnerable countries to help them deal with climate impacts and transition to net-zero economies.
Kay Bradley

Katharine Hayhoe - "Our future is still in our hands" | The On Being Project - The On B... - 0 views

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climate climate change environment faith action

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  • I was talking with a pastor just recently, and he asked me very genuinely, he said, “How do I talk to people about climate change, when the only solutions that we are told that there are to climate change is to stop eating meat” — which is a very big deal in Texas, with those barbecues, it really is. It’s an identity issue. I’m not saying this facetiously; it is literally an identity issue — “and stop driving trucks, also an identity issue, stop traveling, stop having children, which is also an identity issue — basically, stop all these things that actually we often see as defining who we are?” And he said, “How am I supposed to tell people that we’re supposed to do this, when it’s as if I’m telling them, you know, we have to just” — and I think these were my words — “return to the Stone Age, unplug everything, and all the solutions are bad”?
  • And sadly, the way our human psychology is built, psychologists have shown that we, as humans, are much more averse to losing what we have than gaining something new.
  • I think there are some very smart people who have put those pieces together and deliberately communicated a message to us that we’re going to lose all we hold dear, instead of messaging the truth, which is, don’t you want to be more energy independent, rather than less? Don’t you want to have a car that is faster, that you never have to go to the gas station again — especially in the days of COVID — than the one that you have today, and that doesn’t produce air pollution that’s responsible for almost 9 million deaths a year? Don’t you want to grow food in a way that is healthy and good for the soil and for people and for the animals, too? Don’t you want to invest in nature, so it can protect us by purifying our air and our water and protecting our coastlines and providing habitat for animals and preventing zoonosis? When we actually start talking about real solutions  — and that’s the Yale survey that you referred to that I talk about in the book — when we ask people about real solutions, everybody’s on board. Everybody says, heck yes, I would love to do that. And so that is where we can directly address the fear, head-on.
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  • what you’ve been saying. “What we need to fix this thing is rational hope.” How do you instill rational hope? And I mean, how do you do that, right, when you’re out there?
  • And then the second thing is recognizing that we are already moving towards a better future. Now, it might not seem like that, because all the headlines are full of doom and gloom and bad news. But when we start to look for hopeful news — and sadly, we have to go out and look for it, because if you just go — I did an experiment the other day, where I went to the website of a major news organization, and I just paged down through 35 headlines. And about seven or eight were very neutral; like, they didn’t evoke any emotion in me. They were just neutral, factual headlines. And every single other headline was negative — every one. So when we go and we look, though, for the hopeful stories of people who are making a difference, that imbues us with a sense of efficacy, that, wow, there’s somebody over there who’s doing something.
  • And you’re talking about what I refer to as a muscular hope.
  • Nobody in Texas knows that we have the biggest army base by land area, in the U.S., Fort Hood, that is 43 percent powered by clean energy.
  • Nobody knows that the Dallas Fort Worth airport was the first large carbon-neutral airport in North America.
  • Nobody knows that the city of Houston, which is home to, of course, most of the headquarters of many large, multinational oil and gas corporations, that the city of Houston has — is going to be meeting its Paris targets, in terms of reducing its carbon emissions.
  • we think of climate action as a giant boulder sitting at the bottom of an incredibly steep hill, and it’s only got a few hands on it. It’s got, you know, Al Gore’s hands are on it, and maybe Jane Goodall, and maybe a couple other hands, but nobody else. And so there’s just no way we’re going to make it up that hill. Like, just forget it. Why even waste my time? That’s sort of mentally how we think.
  • But the reality is, when we start to look around and see that 90 percent of new energy installed last year, during COVID, was clean energy, and we start to see that cities all over the world are taking action on climate change, and big businesses, like Microsoft and Apple and AT&T — you know, they’re building the biggest solar farm in the U.S., outside of Dallas, to supply major corporations with clean energy. So really, that giant boulder, it is already at the top of the hill, and it’s already rolling down the hill in the right direction, and it already has millions of hands on it. It just doesn’t have enough to get it going faster. And when we think, well, maybe I could add my hand to that, because I could get it going just a little bit faster, that’s totally different than if we think it’s at the bottom of the hill, not budging even an inch. So I find tremendous hope from that.
  • Texas, if Texas were its own country, it would be the seventh-most prolific emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, it’s the number one emitter in the U.S. — and Texas leads the nation in wind generation, for example.
  • that, honestly, and here’s the crazy thing. When you look at how the world has changed before — and it has changed. I mean, you know, 200 years ago it was somehow completely socially acceptable to have other human beings in slavery. And 150 years ago, it was entirely acceptable to say that women’s brains were too small and too fragile to be educated, because they would overheat.
  • It is the verse in Timothy where it talks about fear, where it says, “God has not given you a spirit of fear.”
  • that verse goes on to say, is a spirit of power, which is kind of an old-fashioned word, but in modern parlance it means to be empowered; to be able to act.
  • Or “agency.”
  • Yes, agency. Exactly — a spirit of agency. I like that.
  • And that’s the opposite of being paralyzed by fear. And we also have a spirit of love, which means we can be thinking of and considering others, not just ourselves and our own needs
  • So caring about this issue and acting on it is not only consistent with who we are, but it enables us to more genuinely express what we truly care about
  • It’s about acknowledging that, to care about climate change, you only have to be one thing, and that one thing is a human, living on planet Earth.
  • But talk about why it matters to you. Talk about how you both ski, or you’re both parents and you’re worried about your kids and the playground being too hot for them, or the fact that you fish and you’ve noticed that the fish populations are changing, or the fact that your basement got flooded last time it rained. Talk about something that matters to you and to the person that you’re talking with, and then do your research, to learn about what real climate solutions look like, and share that information with people.
  • do you know what our city is doing? Find out what your city’s doing. Tell people. Do you know what your state’s doing? Do you know what your church is doing? And if you don’t know, ask, and then if they’re not doing anything, say, hey, here are some things that you could be doing. And I even have a list on my website, because people often ask me that. So I’ve got a list of, you know, what could your church do, what can you do at school — all of these different things you can do.
  • hope begins with fear or despair or anxiety, it begins, as the bible says in the Book of Romans, it begins with suffering. And that suffering produces perseverance, and that perseverance produces character, and the character produces hope
  • in the middle of the century, it was somehow acceptable to say that, depending on the color of your skin, you could or couldn’t enter certain buildings or sit in a place on the bus. So the world has absolutely changed before, and how did it change? It was when ordinary people of no particular wealth or fame decided that the world could and should be different, and they decided to not only take personal action, but to use their voices to talk about why it mattered, what could be done, and to advocate for change in every sphere in which they were.
  • Kay Bradley on 15 Nov 21
     
    "Well, we live, today, in a country, the United States, that is more politically polarized than it's been in either of our lifetimes, ever. And that just seems to be getting worse by the day." What Hayhoe and others are pointing to is another way of communicating about climate change.
cole_reynolds

Meet the 'inactivists', tangling up the climate crisis in culture wars | Climate crisis... - 2 views

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climate UK

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  • cole_reynolds on 16 Nov 21
     
    This is an in-depth look into the next (and current) integration of climate denialism: climate "inactivism." It details how right-wing pundits, funded by oil companies, are encouraging people to accept climate change, but refrain from addressing it. They co-opt the language of social justice, calling climate activism elitist or an intentional ploy to harm working-class people. This contains an element of truth, but what started as a legitimate critique is now being used to halt any climate activism in its tracks.
  • arjunk2022 on 16 Nov 21
     
    This seems really concerning. I'm interested in seeing what kind of response, if any, there is in the UK.
audreybandel

It's Climate Week Again, but the Calendar Is Running Out | The New Yorker - 0 views

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Climate

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  • audreybandel on 21 Sep 21
     
    This article was a great way to touch base with current U.S climate policy. I personally find some of the legislative choices detailed in the article incredibly frustrating. Because climate change is a global issue, it could be interesting to compare U.S climate policy to climate policy in other countries, especially when taking into account the ecological/carbon footprint of said countries.
mayas2021

The Arctic Is Shifting to a New Climate Because of Global Warming - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...arctic-changing-climate.html

climatechange

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  • mayas2021 on 14 Sep 20
     
    Global warming is causing the Arctic to become a different kind of climate, one that consists of open water and rain instead of ice and snow. Seasonal air temperatures and number of days with rain as opposed to snow are also changing. The shift to a new type of climate is set to finish by the middle of the century.
  • anyak2021 on 15 Sep 20
     
    This article is a confirmation that the drastic effects of climate change can already be seen. Sea ice has declined around 12 % per decade since the 1970's, causing sea levels to rise drastically. This has forced many Alaska natives that live on the coast to consider relocating. The researchers remind us, though, that it is not too late to make an impactful change if we make reducing carbon emissions a worldwide priority.
arjunk2022

Biden Opens New Federal Office for Climate Change, Health and Equity - The New York Times - 7 views

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NYTimes Climate Change Biden Federal Office

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  • wildfire smoke may contribute to premature births, the Biden administration is
  • consequences of climate change and their disproportionate effects on poor communities.
  • arjunk2022 on 31 Aug 21
     
    This is very cool, good work!
  • cole_reynolds on 31 Aug 21
     
    This seems kinda based, but we need to stop just studying the problem, and actually start doing something
  • petertimpane on 31 Aug 21
     
    Long overdue
evansimons

World Bank Pledges $2 Billion to Bangladesh for Climate Smart Growth - 4 views

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  • evansimons on 03 Nov 16
     
    DHAKA, October 18, 2016 -World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, concluding a two-day trip to Bangladesh focused on the country's successes in reducing extreme poverty, pledged $2 billion over the next three years in new funding to help the country become less vulnerable to climate change.
  • Kay Bradley on 03 Nov 16
     
    Connects to Sophia's post on Bangladesh. . . "Bangladesh is among the countries most at risk from the impacts of climate change. We must confront climate change now as it hits the poor the hardest," said Kim (president of the WOrld Bank).
marcusk2021

Climate Protesters and World Leaders: Same Planet, Different Worlds - 0 views

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/climate/united-nations-climate-change.html Article that sums up the discourse between politicians and climate activists.

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Kay Bradley

US foreign aid is worth defending now more than ever - 0 views

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  • he U.S. government is giving short shrift to international development goals and American values, China appears poised to eclipse America’s economic dominance, and the climate crisis is now an existential threat to us all.
  • current U.S. administration will almost assuredly continue to favor transactional deals and brinksmanship over preserving America’s role as a transformational leader in foreign assistance.
  • we need a new narrative.
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  • With U.S. leadership adrift and progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) halting at best, what can motivate the community of nations to redouble their efforts to realize a better world?
  • aid delivery is being reshaped thanks to citizen-driven social movements, multinational companies motivated to be socially responsible, and powerful foundations backing experimental approaches.
  • The climate crisis, which is hitting developing countries hard, was a central topic at our roundtable, since its effects are already transforming development prospects and confounding those who track long-term environmental and social trends
  • Thus, climate-based migration may soon create one of the greatest sources of insecurity and conflict in the latter part of the 21st century.
  • Developing countries also face a youth bulge; unless we equip youth for the workforce of the future, unemployment will skyrocket and an entire generation will lack purpose and hope for the future, making them particularly vulnerable to radicalization strategies of extremist movements.
  • These individuals need both soft skills and competency in science, technology, engineering, and math if they are to be successful in the economy of tomorrow.
  • Today, China oversees major financial assets and development via the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its ambitious strategy to broaden and deepen its economic relationships and build and fund infrastructure worldwide.
  • Chinese focus on infrastructure lending presents an alternative to grant aid offered by the U.S. and like-minded donors who traditionally promoted human rights and democratic governance.
  • policymakers would do well to find areas around which they can cooperate—for example, on pollution reduction, anti-poverty programs in South Asia, or the prevention of health pandemics
  • Opinion polls clearly highlight that Americans care deeply about doing good in the world.
  • Put simply, American values are alive and well, despite increasing U.S. government disengagement on these issues.
  • The city of Pittsburgh just signed a partnership agreement with Aarhus, Denmark, to work together to transform their old industrial areas into thriving and equitable urban spaces running on clean energy. Another example is Hawaii—a U.S. state that is sharing its experiences in creating innovative partnerships to advance sustainable development with islands such as Palau,
Kay Bradley

USA | Climate Action Tracker - 0 views

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climate change Paris Climate Accords 2015 net zero research

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  • Kay Bradley on 06 Oct 21
     
    For CoPo Climate Round Table
anays2023

How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana's worst - The Washington ... - 1 views

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  • lauran5556555 on 31 Aug 21
     
    This is scary
  • anays2023 on 31 Aug 21
     
    What is normally a routine storm for Louisianans has become a massive crisis due to climate change.
alexandrac22

Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is it Burning Less Carbon? - 0 views

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  • alexandrac22 on 02 Dec 21
     
    I thought this article was really interesting especially since we discussed transparency in our climate talks.
  • arjunk2022 on 04 Dec 21
     
    This is really interesting! I'd be interested to see how Europe compares to the United States in this regard. I'm hopeful that Europe is good about meeting the goals from COP26.
  • juliam814 on 06 Dec 21
     
    I like how the conclusion of this article points out the difference in perspective between politics and "avoiding dangerous climate change"
nicksandford

Mexico will try to 'deceive the world' at Cop27, experts warn | Climate crisis | The Gu... - 1 views

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  • nicksandford on 09 Nov 22
     
    Mexico is playing a strange game. Reputable sources report that Mexico is expected to make major climate commitments at COP 27, such as a 1,000 Mw solar power plant and increasing lithium production for electric cars. However, the new president has been utterly opposed to climate change policy, as he tried to wriggle out of responsibility for 2030 commitments via the Supreme Court. He also bet a large chunk of the economy on fossil fuel energy, particularly coal. People believe he is incapable of doing anything to address climate issues, and want a new president in 2024 who is.
  • slavatalanov on 10 Nov 22
     
    Portraying lithium production as a commitment to the climate is a very interesting tactic. Yeah, we make electric cars using it, but by that logic whale fishing is an honorable commitment because we could create biodegradable corsets. How much ruin will it take for countries to invest in car-independent infrastructure?
slavatalanov

COP27: Island nations want China, India to pay for climate damage | Reuters - 0 views

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  • slavatalanov on 10 Nov 22
     
    Sea level rise is not noted as a major threat as often as CO2 or natural disasters, but that's here in the US. Island nations like Kiribati and the Maldives see this as a different level of problem, as they would be almost entirely submerged if sea levels rise much more than this. Putting blame on India is interesting: is it entirely fair to demand additional efforts from a country which produces the level of emissions that it does due to sheer population mass rather than consumer habits?
  • alecstein on 10 Nov 22
     
    Seems like a similar argument made by countries like Pakistan for climate reparations in general, except almost more urgent, simply because climate change threatens to literally submerge these island nations. To protect against sea level rise like the netherlands has would be incredibly expensive, so it makes sense that the money would go into a fund to rebuild after climate change disasters. I just wonder what they will do to actually stop their islands from disappearing.
sebastianw2023

Climate activists set off fire alarm at World Health Summit | Sky News - 1 views

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  • sebastianw2023 on 18 Oct 22
     
    Disrupting large events and especially important pieces of art has been a trend in climate activism recently, at least the most documented/reported. Although this tactic may get the conversation started, in my opinion, it drives away many people who could (but don't) climate activism.
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  • slavatalanov on 18 Oct 22
     
    I've heard the crackpot theory that some of these activists are being covertly paid off by oil execs to make the ecological movement appear ridiculous. Absolutely no evidence but it's interesting to consider. If I were an Exxon administrator frothing crude petroleum from my mouth this is exactly what I'd do.
  • alecstein on 19 Oct 22
     
    Yeah, I agree -- it makes the climate movement seem irrational rather than scientific.
  • duncanc2023 on 19 Oct 22
     
    It's crazy/a little sad that this is what some people feel like they have to resort to in order to spread the word. I understand that they usually have the right intentions however this can also just be seen as something done for publicity/attention.
alecstein

Cop27: Sunak says it is 'morally right' for UK to honour climate pledges | Cop27 | The ... - 0 views

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  • alecstein on 07 Nov 22
     
    Brushed off any mention of reparations while still committing over 10 billion dollars to developing nations to fight climate change. Boris Johnson, also at COP27, put it even more bluntly when he said the UK could not afford reparations at all. I wonder if this is out of fear of the huge check that could be tallied when calculating the ultimate cost of reparations. Also brought up another thought: climate emmissions have grown at an almost exponential rate since 1900, should we be paying climate 'reparations' for our current emissions as well as our past ones, given how much we are emitting at the moment. '
Kay Bradley

UNAA-Climate-Change-Position-Paper-2019-1-1.pdf - 0 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 11 Nov 19
     
    Australia's climate commitment as of February 2019. . . major fires burning now, in November (their spring)
artemisiam2021

In Visiting a Charred California, Trump Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies - The ... - 1 views

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California_Wildfires Climate_Change Trump NYTimes

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  • artemisiam2021 on 15 Sep 20
     
    Trump has come to California today to take inventory of the wildfires currently scorching the state. He has been firmly denying the existence of climate change while promoting the usage of fossil fuels throughout his campaign and presidency, even though climate change is at least partially responsible for the level of devastation the California fires have caused.
  • anyak2021 on 15 Sep 20
     
    This is a super interesting article. I didn't realize how directly responsible Trump is for much of the current climate crisis and that his decisions in the past 4 years have had a global impact
julianp22

In Germany, global warming is changing more than just the climate. It's changing politi... - 0 views

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Climate Germany Politics

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  • “I have to admit that in the past, I did not always vote for the Greens,” he said. “With the elections looming this year, I felt compelled to do something. The conventional parties play hide and seek, they say one thing, but mean another. They did not take the implementation of the climate goals seriously.”
  • The flood’s damage to the region’s wine industry alone is estimated at $175 million,
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